Being Hurt Quotes - Page 3

• Wounds make better lessons than lectures.

  Brian Herbert

  Hurt, Lessons, Lectures

  Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson (2003). “Dune: House Harkonnen”, p.424, Spectra

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• The best defense against being hurt is to feel good about yourself and the way a person responds to you says more about them, than about you.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Hurt, Feel Good, Feelings

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• Women not only get violated, but then we take on the struggle to end it too... As a man, how could the destruction of women be anything to you but devastating? Think about the fact that the women being hurt are your mothers, daughters, sisters.

  Eve Ensler

  Daughter, Mother, Hurt

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.

  Simone Weil

  Hurt, Men, Compassion

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.30, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Hurt, Joy, Feelings

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.102, Macmillan

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• I played eight years without really being hurt seriously and hadn't had to deal with that part of the game. So, to get hurt and to have to miss games, that part of it was very hard. And so when I came back and somebody else had my job and I couldn't get it back. You know that was hard.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Hurt, Jobs, Eight

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• There is what might be called a Catch-22 of hazardous occupations: The more hazardous the job, the more men; the more men, the less we care about making the job safer. The Catch-22 of hazardous occupations creates a 'glass cellar' which few women wish to enter. Women are alienated not just out of the fear of being hurt on the job, but by an atmosphere that can make a hazardous job more hazardous than it needs to be.

  Warren Farrell

  Hurt, Jobs, Men

  "Why Men Earn More". Book by Warren Farrell, 2005.

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• It would seem that in Paine's view the code of government should be that of the legendary King Pausole, who prescribed but two laws for his subjects, the first being, Hurt no man, and the second, Then do as you please.

  Albert J. Nock

  Hurt, Kings, Men

  "Our Enemy, the State" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 36), 1935.

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• What else don’t women like besides the Three Stooges? Tom Waits. Being hurt physically or emotionally.

  Julie Klausner

  Hurt, Waiting, Three

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• It takes courage to care for others, because people who care run the risk of being hurt. It's not easy to let your guard down, open your heart, react with sympathy or compassion or indignation or enthusiasm when usually it's much easier-and sometimes much safer-not to get involved. People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you are.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Running, Hurt, Heart

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• When you love someone, them being hurt is worse than any pain that you could suffer.

  Dorothy Koomson

  Hurt, Pain, When You Love Someone

  Dorothy Koomson (2011). “The Woman He Loved Before”, p.308, Hachette UK

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• You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. but people died or changed or went away and it hurt too much. The only way to avoid that poin was not to love anyone, and not to let anyone get too close or too important. The secret of not being hurt like this again, I decided, was never depending on anyone, never needing, never loving.It is the last dream of children, to be forever untouched.

  Audre Lorde

  Dream, Hurt, Children

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• I've been so mistreated by male authority in my life that I had a terrible time in my marriage trying to be a submissive wife. I wanted to rule the roost in everything. And it wasn't even really that I was rebellious; I was afraid of being hurt. And I think that a lot of people that choose these alternative lifestyles, I think it's because they've been hurt somewhere along the line very badly.

  Joyce Meyer

  Hurt, Thinking, People

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• In America, we're being hurt very badly by China with devaluation, with taxing us heavy at the borders when we don't tax them, with building a massive fortress in the middle of the South China Sea, which they shouldn't be doing.

  Donald Trump

  Hurt, Sea, America

  Source: time.com

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• I have been taken for a ride a couple of times. I've been hurt by people who I've had a 90 percent possibility of being hurt by.

  George Michael

  Hurt, Couple, Taken

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.

  Krishna Das

  Hurt, Ifs

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, beherenownetwork.com. June 1, 2016.

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• What is forgiving? Forgiving is giving up all claim on one who had hurt you and letting go of the emotional consequences of the hurt. How can we do that? It's done at the price of beating back our pride. By nature we are selfish. Forgiving, by definition, is unselfish. Being hurt by another person wounds our pride. Pride stands in the way of forgiving. We cannot forgive without God's help. It might be possible for us to forgive something inconsequential without God's help; but in significant matters, we are unlikely to accomplish anything without God's involvement in the process.

  Richard Walters

  Letting Go, Hurt, Giving Up

  "Let Go and Be Free: How Forgiving Calms Anger and Heals Wounded Hearts". Book by Richard Walters, August 15, 2002.

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• Teenagers expressing this on a daily basis in the middle of the streets - you can't help but believe we are in the mind state of taking our losses and changing people's perceptions of us and our community. We are strong. Our families are tired of being hurt.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Strong, Hurt, Teenager

  "Kendrick Lamar Knows How to Deal with the Grammys Censors". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. February 12, 2016.

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• It is rarely comfortable to talk about climate change. Bringing something difficult up, it feels like somehow by mentioning this I'm kind of causing it, I'm hurting these people. But you're not hurting these people; climate change is hurting these people. You're telling them they're being hurt.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Hurt, People, Climate

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hurt, Would Be, Cruelty

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3686, e-artnow

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• Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bittersweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt and take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself.

  Alain de Botton

  Hurt, Giving Up, Pain

  Alain de Botton (2006). “On Love: A Novel”, p.45, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I think what draws me to young people is there is always this kind of openness that reacts very strongly to things. Sometimes when you get older, you react much less. That's also a reason why a lot of young people get hurt because if you're open, you're more subject to being hurt by things.

  Lukas Moodysson

  Hurt, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You need to decide whether you're willing to risk being hurt, plain and simple. You can go for it and have a wonderful relationship. Or you might go for it and crash and burn brilliantly. It's up to you if you want to take that risk, up to you if it's worth it or not.

  Erin McCarthy

  Hurt, Simple, Risk

  Erin McCarthy (2009). “Hard and Fast”, p.210, Penguin

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• Love means the courage to expose yourself to the potential pains of being hurt, deeply hurt by someone you trust.

  Renita J. Weems

  Hurt, Pain, Mean

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• Real compassion is not emotional. Real compassion is based on the experience that all beings, which might appear separate, are actually a part of my own body, and I am a part of the body of the universe. We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.

  Krishna Das

  Hurt, Real, Emotional

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, beherenownetwork.com. June 1, 2016.

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